Exclusive: Dell Mini Inspiron, Their First Mini Laptop — I bumped into Michael Dell at All Things D after his interview, and he was nice enough to show me this laptop that he was carrying that he said no one's seen before. It's a small form factor notebook, just like the Asus Eee and the HP 2133.

Is This The Acer Aspire One MiniNote? — Update. Some details are emerging...see below. — Hot on the heals of the Dell Mininote leak are these images which just dropped into our forum. This posts are titled ‘Aspire One.’ — It's got the same touchpad as seen on the HP 2133 and what appears to be an 8.9″ screen.

Something from Dell at D6 — There's a pretty cool event going on as you read this out in Carlsbad, Calif - the D: All Things Digital conference. Conversations from it have been lighting up the front page of Techmeme since last night. For those who aren't familiar with it …

Akamai Releases State of the Internet Report — Akamai is out today with their first “State of the Internet” report. The report is well worth a read as it covers a variety of topics including: security, connection speeds, geography, network access, and Internet penetration. Some of the interesting stats include:

Obama Spent Most of $3.5 Million This Year on Google — Barack Obama's campaign spent at least $3.47 million on online advertising related purchases between January and April. The biggest recipient of the Democratic Presidential hopeful's online ad dollars was Google.

Apple to make major studios' films available for download — Apple is poised to announce it will start selling films from four major Hollywood studios for download in the UK as part of its iTunes internet service at prices on a par with DVDs. — The company intends to unveil agreements with Disney …

Mozilla “Download Day” - Are you in or out? — Mozilla are organizing a “Download Day” to promote Firefox 3.0 and set a Guinness World Record for the most downloaded software in 24 hours. Are you in or out? — Maybe it's me and I'm feeling a little cranky today because I've …

The Fork in the Road for Social Media — Social networking is at a major fork in the road. Down one road is adding more features to a walled garden and opening up just enough, so that users seldom need to leave. Most sites are going down this yellow brick road and the prize is clearly a big one.

VIA Nano Processor Preview - Isaiah Gets Official … Isaiah Turns to Nano — Today marks one of the most pivotal days in the history of VIA Technologies; after essentially bowing out of the chipset market for AMD and Intel processors the combined CPU/platform division that was much maligned …

Google Gets Fancy With Google I/O TShirts. Too Fancy — With all the thousands of engineers at google, you'd think someone speaks binary. But perhaps not. Attendees of the Google I/O conference today were given t-shirts that, presumably, were supposed to spell GOOGLEIO on the front in binary.

MSI Wind: Hands-on, with exclusive photos — We've just had an exclusive hands-on with the MSI Wind, which we liked the look of in March, and by golly it's good. So good, in fact, that it could take the throne from the Asus Eee PC as the best mini laptop on the planet.

JAJAH: Change is in the wind — A couple of weeks ago I was invited to give a talk at the University of Toronto as part of their MET Executive Development Program. The room was stuffed full of telecom execs on a two day program run by the engineering faculty at the University.